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Around summer when I became a junior high school student, my old and beautiful elementary schoolhouse was pulled down, and was rebuilt with solid concrete. According to the demolition, all of the cherry trees which enclosed the schoolyard were also chopped.

I grow up, and am living in Tokyo. Living here without remind my childhood.
There was a cherry tree in my neighborhood which makes splendid bloom every year. I went to the travel for about two weeks to Paris in 2012. When I returned to Tokyo, the tree was cut down completely. And the signboard “Here is a planned construction site for new house” stood there instead of the cherry tree.

One day, ordinary existence suddenly disappears.
Everything is demolished before I ruminate.
New things are made and will be destroyed again.
It seems to be repeated forever.

Pedro Costa is one of the film director I respect. In the pamphlet of his work “Colossal Youth”, he said like this. “I am a human who living in the past.” The phrase relieved me terribly.
And novelist Haruki Murakami said “Everything have a beginning and an ending. So that most things have an entrance and an exit. It is inevitable and nobody can change it. In that way everything pass away.”

I pick up fragments of unknown, ephemeral, universal things that was spilled from the story of the people or the city or the landscape. And then, I reconstruct them to find a permanency.